Thursday, 16 March 2017

Jurisdiction: how does it work?

Disregarding the merits of the cases at hand, or the plausibility of a judge actually having written a 43-page opinion in 2 hours, two significant aspects of the "Trump travel ban" cases jump out at me.

First off, there are district court judges issuing rulings that purport to apply nationwide. Does this not fly in the face of the whole concept of a "district" court?